Saskatchewan Announces $90-Million in Funding for Rural Broadband Expansion

9:10 am on November 28, 2008 | Category: Business, Internet, Telecom Services

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The provincial government of Saskatchewan announced on Wednesday that will contribute $90 million over the next three years towards a plan to bring broadband internet access to every community in the province.

The plan will be implemented by incumbent telecom carrier, SaskTel, at a total cost of $129 million. It will involve extending rural internet infrastructure, improving the CommunityNet broadband network, and building 50 new cell phone towers.

“Every business owner, every child in school, every senior wanting to improve their education will soon have access to high speed regardless of where they live in our province,” said Saskatchewan Premier, Brad Wall, in a new release.

Wall described the ambitious 100% coverage target as “our own 21st-century version of the last spike in the Canadian Pacific Railway and an important investment in rural Saskatchewan that will sustain and solidify economic growth.”

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    1. The headline says 90 billion instead of million for some reason. A simple typing transposition error I presume but it should be fixed.

      Comment by Akbar McGillicuddy — December 1, 2008 #

    2. Sorry for the mistake… it has been fixed.

      I guess I’m getting too accustomed to writing about corporate bailouts, where the cost is all-too-often well into the billions. ;)

      – Editor.

      Comment by Jeremy — December 2, 2008 #

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